{"id":70321,"date":"2025-11-26T06:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70321\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:33:06","slug":"safety-tips-from-san-diegos-police-department-you-havent-heard-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/70321\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety tips from San Diego\u2019s Police Department you haven\u2019t heard before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 San Diego Police Department spoke about how to avoid common holiday pitfalls such as porch pirates, online scams and Facebook marketplace meetups gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Get a unit to check in on your house<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Police Department&#8217;s Vacation House Check is available for people leaving their houses unoccupied for holiday travel. With staff permitting, Retired Senior Volunteers will check in on your home while away, but must be reserved a week in advance.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\/services\/vacation-house-check\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shop with your credit card, not your debit card<\/p>\n<p>While checking URLs before ordering something and shopping online on trustworthy sites is not novel to most, choosing to make the purchase with a credit card can be a safer option, as many have fraud and scam protections that debit cards might not possess.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook marketplace safe meetup sites<\/p>\n<p>If shopping secondhand or picking up a novel item for a loved one, the San Diego police have safe meetup sites for people looking to do exchanges in front of each substation. Each parking lot of each substation will have a\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/public_safety_committee_chairman_to_unveil_space_for_online_transactions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Designated Online Transaction Space<\/a>\u00a0(D.O.T.S.), which is well-lit and surrounded by cameras. If something goes awry, you\u2019re only feet from a police station\u2019s front door.<\/p>\n<p>Porch piracy<\/p>\n<p>During this time of the year, porch pirates can be on the lookout for packages left behind. San Diego Police Department spokesperson Colin Steinbroner said keeping packages out on the porch for any amount of time is unsafe. Ordering a specific item to the store or choosing a pickup location could be safer this time of year, though less convenient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPickup is a better option,\u201d Steinbroner said. \u201cLeaving [packages] out for any amount of time is just asking for trouble, unfortunately, these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steinbroner recommended that all porch pirates be reported to the police immediately, as the department is working on catching thieves, and any clue might be helpful to building a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 San Diego Police Department spoke about how to avoid common holiday pitfalls such as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5904,41410,2821,41411,41412,41413,41414,74,76,75,28489],"class_list":{"0":"post-70321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-credit-card","9":"tag-dots","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-facebook-marketplace","12":"tag-holiday-safety","13":"tag-porch-pirates","14":"tag-safe-meetup-sites","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-scams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}